The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Governor Seyi Makinde had directed that flags should fly at half-mast in honour of Ajimobi who died on Thursday, aged 70.
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Tunji told newsmen in Ibadan that the burial would not hold on Friday and would strictly be a family affair.
AbdulRazaq said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Rafiu Ajakaye on Friday.
Ajimobi made the wish known at the 4th Edition of the Ramadan 2020 lecture organised by a radio station in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on the position of Islam in dealing with a pandemic
The governor, in a condolence message to the Ajimobi family and the people of Oyo State, also directed that the state’s flag fly at half mast on Friday.
Dr. Fayemi in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, described Ajimobi’s death as a personal loss to him, and a huge loss to the people of Oyo State in particular and Nigeria in general.
Ajimobi’s death was announced on Thursday at the age of 70 while battling COVID-19 complications at a private hospital in Lagos
Available information had it that Ajimobi died battling Coronavirus Disease
The police had initially sealed the secretariat on Tuesday but reopened it, saying it was to ensure peace reigns
The NWC members said this in a statement by the APC acting National Secretary, Waziri Bulama, shortly after the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, declared support for Victor Giadom as the party’s acting National Chairman and promised to attend the NEC meeting on Thursday
Somehow, vested interests who may have been furtively peddling false allegations against some Progressive Governors for the perspectives they hold about the crisis facing the party, are doing everything possible to impose their fantasies. All other perspective outside those fantasies are being criminalised and every attempt is being made to break the ranks of Progressive Governors
The media had been awash with concerns on Thursday about the state of health of Ajimobi, with some reporting him dead.
The party had cleared Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Hon. Osaro Obaze and Dr. Pius Odubu to contest the primaries.
This followed Tuesday’s judgment of the Court of Appeal upholding the suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, by a Federal Capital Territory High Court pending the determination of the substantive suit
The committee, led by former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, was inaugurated on Thursday at the party secretariat in Ibadan.
Mrs, Agoola was appointed as the Head of Service by a former Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, who came into power on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, in May 2019
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Taiwo Adisa, has described comments credited to a former governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Niyi Akintola (SAN), as one largely informed by bad blood and undue politicking.
Mrs. Ajimobi said this while speaking with her daughter, Bisola, in a video, which was posted on Instagram
The Deputy National Chairman, South, of the All Progressives Congress and former Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has constituted a team to reconcile aggrieved members of the party in Oyo State.
Oshiohmole revealed that Buhari was delighted to have received Ajimobi whom he described as a “complete gentleman”